The International Library of Sociology (ILS) is the most important series of books on sociology ever published. Founded in the 1940s by Karl Mannheim, the series became the forum for pioneering research and theory, marked by comparative approaches and the identification of new directions in sociology, publishing major figures in Anglo-American and European sociology, from Durkheim and Weber to Parsons and Gouldner, and from Ossowski and Klein to Jasanoff and Walby.
Its new editors, John Holmwood (University of Nottingham, UK) and Vineeta Sinha (National University of Singapore), plan to develop the series as a truly global project, reflecting new directions and contributions outside its traditional centres, and connecting with the original aim of the series to produce sociological knowledge that addresses pressing global social problems and supports democratic debate.
By M. Ashdown, S. Clement Brown
June 03, 2013
First published in 1998. This is Volume VII, the final of seven in the Sociology of Mental Health series. Written in 1953, this book is about individuals who choose and are chosen for psychiatric social work, the use that they make of training and the shaping of their careers when they enter ...
By Paul Halmos
June 03, 2013
First Published in 1998. This is Volume IV of eighteen in the Sociology of Behaviour and Psychology series This is a study of social isolation, plus its causes. Written in 1952 rather than just ask what is wrong with the state of the world today, Dr Halmos turns to scientific analysis, ...
By Alfred Bonne
November 09, 2010
This is Volume X in a series of eleven on Economics and Society. Originally published in 1957, this study has special reference to the conditions in the underdeveloped areas of Western Asia and India....
By Cyril Belshaw
May 03, 2013
First published in 1998.This essay is an excursion towards model building by an anthropologist looking at social development in an exploration of the possibility of constructing a theoretical framework which would lead to the formation of hypotheses about the ways in which the conditions present in...
By John H. Hallowell
November 03, 2010
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork....
By J. Hoenig, Marian W. Hamilton
June 03, 2013
First published in 1998. This is Volume I, of seven in the Sociology of Mental Health series. This is a study of the work and effects of the psychiatric services in two typical areas in the pioneering Manchester Hospital Region where comprehensive psychiatric care units have been evolved alongside ...
By Alfred Bonne
May 03, 2013
First published in 1998. This is Volume II of eleven in the Economics and Society series. This book provides an outline of the economic development of the Middle East and planned reconstruction and the problems of transformation after the war....
By Werner Stark
January 24, 2003
First published in 1998. This is Volume VII of eight in the Sociology of Religion series and includes part four of the Sociology of Religion which looks at types of religious men in Christendom, starting with the figures of Jesus, St.Peter, St. Francis, Frate Elia, Joseph Smith and Brighton Young ...
By Robert Egerton
June 03, 2013
This is Volume XII of fifteen in a series on the Sociology of Law and Criminology. First published in 1945, based on the authors experience and produced just before the Lord Chancellor appointed a committee led by Lord Rushcliffe, to enquire into the present facilities for giving legal advice and...
By H.F. Dickie-Clark
May 15, 2013
First published in 1998. This is Volume XI of the twenty-one in the Race, Class and Social Structure series, which looks at the theory of the 'marginal man', the situation and using a 'marginalised' group for study in Durban, South Africa. This expands to include politics, the participation in ...
By George W. Goetschius, M. Joan Tash
May 15, 2013
First published in 1998. This is Volume XI of the twelve in the Sociology of Youth and Adolescence series which outlines the problem, approach, and method around a the report of an enquiry into the ways and means of contacting and working with unattached young people in an inner London Borough. The...
By Robert W. Witkin
March 19, 1998
Adorno is one of the leading cultural thinkers of the twentieth century. This is the first detailed account of Adorno's texts on music from a sociological perspective. In clear, non-technical language, Robert Witkin guides the reader through the complexities of Adorno's argument about the link ...